Is this considered a literary device of any kind? This is from To Kill a Mockingbird:

“Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men, seemed unwilling to approve wholeheartedly of them. But I liked them… no matter how undelectable they were, there was something about them I instinctively liked… they weren’t—
‘Hypocrites, Mrs. Perkins, born hypocrites,’ Mrs. Merriweather was saying” (Lee 267).